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ACLU warns against proposed TikTok ban for violating the First Amendment

"Banning TikTok would have profound implications for our constitutional right to free speech and free expression."

"So long as it is owned by ByteDance and thus required to collaborate with the [Chinese Communist Party], TikTok poses critical threats to our national security," said Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi upon the bill's introduction. At a recent hearing on child safety with some of social media's biggest leaders, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew was questioned repeatedly about his ties to China and the Chinese Communist Party. Other foreign governments, college campuses, companies, and federal and state offices have also made the move to ban the app out of fears of data privacy and national security, but the ACLU and other civil liberties groups have maintained a strong stance against similar legislation.

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